Packing container



E. B. WESTON.

PACKING CONTAINER. APPLICATION FILED JAN.9,1922.

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Patented Oct. 24

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E. B. WESTON. PACKING CONTAI APPLICATION man JAN NEH.

Patented 060.241, 1922.

2 SHEETSSHEET Z- Passer ca. '2 1922.,

. EDWARD WESTON, F DAYTON, OHIO.

PACKING corrramna.

Application fll ed aanuary 9, 1922. Serial No. 527,981.

To all whom it may concern! Be it known that L-Enwam) WEs'ror a citizen of the United States, and a res1- dent of Dayton, in the county of Montgom- 5 ery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pack-v ing Containers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference .being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to means for packing and shipping fragile articles, more particularly eggs and the like, in which the break- -age resulting from the ordinary methods of is to provide a construction in which eggs especially can be effectively packed cheaply and expeditiously with a minimum liability of breakage even under rough treatment, and in which a square carton of cardboard can be employed instead of the oblong woo'den box so generally in use, of substantially the same cubical contents.

With my invention, in addition to perfect support and protection of the fragile goods from contact with each other, the ability to make use of a square outside container for shipment is a marked advantage in it-. self, inasmuch as square packages are better adapted for packing space and for the same weight of goods an oblong package has for one end farther to drop if carelessly handled and the liability to damage of the contents is consequently greater with oblong packages than with square.

My invention consists of that novel construction of paper partitions and supporting and protecting sections to be hereinafter particularly pointed out and claimed, in which 4.0 the above results are effectively attained.

In the drawings,

I Figure l is a perspective view of my improved container, with one outside wall removed and the carton partly packed.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of one of the corrugated sheets.

Figure 3 is a similar view of one of the perforated partitions.

Figure t is a plan view of the superimposed sheets showing the positionof the e s. lhe construction for holding the articles (and in the drawings I have selected for illustration an egg carrier) comprises a series packing is exceedingly large, and my objectof corrugated vcordboard sections 1, in which the height of the corrugations is somewhat.

more than half the length of the average egg.

These corrugated sheets are each also formed with a series of cup-sha ed depress1ons 2, 2, and 3, 3, on both sides of the sheet, so that each side of each sheet is formed with alternate depressions and raised portions along the sides of each corrugation. In the construction illustrated, which is designed to provide a square package for half a dozen eggs in each row, with six rows, there are consequently formed six depressions, and these depressions are opposite each other so as .to provide a receptacle for the eggwwith the raised portions forming a support, while in the opposite side of the sheet the raised portions are corresponding depressions for the support ofthe eggs.

These corrugated sheets with the depressions and raised portions are exactly alike, and they are preferably formed by pressure between corrugated rollers inlong sheets or strips and then severed for the desired length of individual sheet. As'it is intended that the sheets shall be laid on top of each other with the crest of the corrugations contiguous, as will be later described, it follows that one end 4 of each sheet will be severed at the bottom of the corrugation and the other end 5 at the top of its corrugation. When thus cut in length and the sheets are piled on each other, the tops'of vthe corrugations will be contiguous without overlapping of the several sheets, and there will be one half a corrugation for each sheet in excess of the numberrequired.

In connection with these corrugated sheets I also employ division sheets 6. These sheets are fiat and provided with holes 7 to correspond to the number of articles to be packed. These sheets are used alternately with the corrugated sheets and their special purpose is to prevent the eggs or other articles from shifting towards each other laterally. Just as in the case of the corrugated sheets, the openings in these sheets do not come as close to one end as the other,

. and there is a blank section 7 at one end,

and in the use of these partitions, as will be seen, the ends of the sheets are reversed alternately as the parts are assembled; In order to pack the eggs or other articles, I proceed as follows. I

A square cardboard container 8 is provided of the inside dimensions to hold snugly the corrugated sheets.

' corrugated sheet is In this container a corrugated sheet is laid, and on top of it one of the partition sheets with the holes in the partition registering with the cup-shape'recesses for the eggs. Then a layer of eggs, in the present instance three dozen, is packed in the container, with the eggs on end. Next a second laced in the container with the corrugation contiguous. This brings the edges of the two sheets together on one edge and diverging at the other edge. A second perforated sheet is then placed in the container, as before, with the holes registering with the depressions. This brings the blank space of the sheet at the other side. A second layer of eggs is packed. The third corrugated sheet and a partition sheet are deposited as before, and the next layer of eggs packed, with the same method continued until the container is filled.

It will be noticed that with the eggs 9 packed in this way. the eggs are not located on top of each other, but diagonally, and that each intermediate layer overlaps the layers above and below, and that therefore for a given height or thickness of the layers many more layers can-be packed. Each egg is perfectly supported at substantially eight points of support, and none of the eggs bears against each other with only the thickness of cardboard between them, as in ordinary packages. They are cushioned on all sides,

. and the points of the eggs are protected by the peak of the corrugation. More space is taken up in a horizontal plane in the cardboard cushionsfand the eggs are farther apart than ordinarily. This, however, is compensated for by the overlapping of the layers. so that the cubic contents of they square container for. say. 36 dozen eggs will only slightly exceed the cubic contents of the ordinary container in which the eggs in horizontal layers are much closer together.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 2-- 1. In a device of the character specified, in combination with a container, of a series of similarly corrugated sheets, with alternate depressions and raised portions for each side of the sheet along the sides of each corrugation, and with each alternate sheet reversed.

2. In a device of the character specified, in combination with a container, of a series of similarly corrugated sheets, with alternate depressions and raised portions for each side of the sheet,and with each alternate sheet reversed, and a flat sheet with holes corresponding to the number of depressions interposed between each corrugated sheet.

3. In a device of the character specified, in combination with a container, of a series of similarly corrugated sheets, with alternate depressions and raised portions for each side of the sheet along the sides of each corrugation, and with each alternate sheet reversed, and the crests of the corrugations contiguous.

4. In a device of the character specified, in combination with a container, of a series of similarly corrugated sheets, with alternate depressions and raised'portions -for each side of the sheet, and with each alternate sheet reversed. and the crests of the corrugations contiguous. and. a flat sheet with holes corresponding to the number of depressions interposed between each corrugated sheet.

5. A packing container comprising a plurality of corrugated sheets resting on each other with the crests of the corrugations contiguous and partition sheets with perforations therein interposed between each corrugated sheet.

EDWARD B. WESTON. 

